Delving into Coldfusion, jQuery, HTML5 and Linux

I was recently using Keith Wood’s calendar plugin and kept running into an issue when trying to copy a date object and add days to it. When I would copy the object, I was actually just creating a reference to the original… Not what I wanted. Found the answer was to clone the object, and [...]

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§273 · December 10, 2011 · JavaScript, Tips & Tricks · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


I’ve been wondering if I should be using Try / Catch for more readable code. My biggest worry is of course efficient. Found this concise test on JSFiddle. http://jsfiddle.net/jonjenkins/adJQn/

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§270 · December 7, 2011 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


I’m a WordPress junkie. I was using WordPress as a CMS back when there were still haters saying it couldn’t be done. I’ve tried Posterous for a while now, even tried Tumblr (cfpad.tumblr.com) as well. Both platforms are great in their own ways, but I’m moving back to a stand alone WordPress install this week. [...]

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§157 · November 17, 2011 · News & Opinion · (No comments) ·


Here’s a little method I wrote to merge a CF list into an existing array.

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§118 · November 7, 2011 · Coldfusion · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


Today I’m working on decreasing execution time on a script that does a couple DB querys and cfdirectory lists. After some preliminary testing my gut perception has proven true; the exorbinate execution time is due to cfdirectory. So I set out to find a faster way of getting file information from directories and sure enough [...]

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§119 · October 27, 2011 · Coldfusion · 1 comment · Tags: ,